Fire Features & Outdoor Living in Ogunquit, Maine.

A large share of our Maine work is executing drawings for landscape architects — reading elevations, holding the specified batter and joint, and flagging a conflict before it becomes a change order. Much of it in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design.

Price in Ogunquit is driven less by the stone than by what is under it. Access, how far material has to be carried, the depth of base granite ledge and thin soil demands, and the amount of drainage a site needs move a number far more than the choice between one bluestone and another.

You get an itemized scope after we walk the property — what is included, what is not, and where the money actually goes. No allowances that quietly become change orders halfway through.

The part nobody photographs: where the pallets sit, where the excavator tracks, and what the property looks like on a Friday afternoon. In Ogunquit we plan all of that up front and hold the schedule we gave you at the start.

Ogunquit’s Marginal Way runs the length of an open-ocean headland — the ledge is the foundation, and everything is detailed to shrug off salt and surf.

The same crew builds the seat walls, the grill surround, the steps, and the terrace — in Marginal Way, Perkins Cove, and Israel Head and across town — so the stone matches and one company owns how the finished room reads.

A fire feature is what stretches a Ogunquit yard from two usable seasons to three. We lay the space out on site first — seat height, circle diameter, how far the chairs sit from the flame, and which way the wind carries smoke across a rocky headland between Marginal Way and the tidal Ogunquit River — because geometry is what decides whether a fire pit gets used or ignored.

Only once that reads right do we set stone, wrapping the fire with seat walls and terrace so the whole space is designed around where people actually gather.